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Seneca Environmental, a division of the Seneca Nation's investment arm, is working with indigenous communities to develop renewable energy projects on their own lands._ May 6, 2024 1:25 PM UTC Seneca Environmental, a division of the Seneca Nation's investment arm, is working with indigenous communities to develop renewable energy projects on their own lands.  by [Joey Lautrup](https://time.com/author/joey-lautrup/)  ## Joey Lautrup May 6, 2024 1:25 PM UTC Seneca Environmental, a division of the Seneca Nation’s investment arm, is working with indigenous communities to develop renewable energy projects on their own lands. ## Transcript [00:00] I think a really unique approach that we're taking as a tribally [00:03] owned company in the energy space is bringing awareness [00:06] and thought to how energy projects will play out and how that [00:11] affects the land because it is so valuable to our people and [00:15] to Native people across the country, especially as you've [00:18] lost so much of it already. [00:29] The Seneca nation is one of the six nations of the Iroquois [00:33] or who initially Confederacy were located in Western New York. [00:38] We're about half of our members live. [00:40] There are just over 8,500 enrolled senecas Nations and tribes [00:47] can own and operate for-profit businesses, which is really [00:51] a need for government in the United States that the only form [00:53] of government that can do that. [00:55] They don't have any other shareholders. [00:56] They don't have any investors, but they end up doing business [00:59] on behalf of and especially for the benefit of the entire [01:03] nation tribe. [01:20] Anthony's can now invest in Renewables at competitive [01:25] prices and can win bids against private Developers. [01:34] Our goal really is to build up this Energy Enterprise [01:40] across Indian country by partnering with other native nations [01:44] and tribes and Pueblos and helping them to achieve their energy [01:48] goals, which may be something as simple as up. [01:51] We just need a micro grid to help us kind of get some of [01:54] our systems online and ensure that we have that energy resiliency [01:58] here or hey, we're looking to really develop the economic [02:03] Enterprises within our own nation. [02:05] And we we see energy as a way to do this. [02:14] Sonic energy is are on territory utility. [02:17] They are responsible for several of our energy projects. [02:21] We have to energy projects on our territories right now 1.5 megawatt [02:27] wind turbine on Seneca lands and at to Mega watt solar array [02:32] on Seneca lands, both of which feed power back into the utilities [02:37] that they're connected to any utility gives a bill credit [02:40] to the residents of those territories in order to pass the profits of [02:45] those projects on to the residence back to the nation to fund [02:52] health programs educational programs culture and other infrastructure, [02:57] which is really essential. [03:05] It's not just straight to business or money or whatever [03:08] the economics but kind of the impact to community that's really [03:13] essential shared experience and values can be the difference-maker [03:18] when it comes to business dealings or energy projects or you [03:23] know, anything related to to the land and the community [03:26] and what's happening around where people live [03:30] In ten years, I think that you're going to see thousands [03:33] of megawatts of renewable energy projects that are owned by new [03:38] communities bring to the Forefront the work that native peoples [03:44] have been doing forever is going to be really essential [03:47] and ensuring that the Earth is taken care of in the right ways. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6963140/seneca-environmental-native-communities-clean-energy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6963140/seneca-environmental-native-communities-clean-energy/"},"headline":"How the Seneca Nation Is Helping Native Communities Embrace Clean Energy","datePublished":"2024-05-06T13:25:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T17:24:23.072Z","description":"The Seneca Nation is helping native communities develop renewable energy projects on their own lands","url":"https://time.com/6963140/seneca-environmental-native-communities-clean-energy/","keywords":["Environment","climate change","climate","AmazonFutures24"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joey Lautrup","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joey-lautrup/"}],"articleSection":"Climate","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/climate/","name":"Climate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6963140/seneca-environmental-native-communities-clean-energy/","name":"How the Seneca Nation Is Helping Native Communities Embrace Clean Energy"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How the Seneca Nation is Helping Native Communities Embrace Clean Energy","description":"Seneca Environmental, a division of the Seneca Nation's investment arm, is working with indigenous communities to develop renewable energy projects on their own lands.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/8QuMxE7X/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-04-03T17:25:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8QuMxE7X.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/6963140/seneca-environmental-native-communities-clean-energy/","duration":"PT4M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/6963140/seneca-environmental-native-communities-clean-energy/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```